If you've ever bought or sold something expensive between strangers — a car, a house, a .com worth five figures — you've run into the same problem: the buyer doesn't want to pay before they get the thing, and the seller doesn't want to hand over the thing before they get paid. Somebody has to go first, and going first means trusting the other person.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://namefi.io/r/en/blog/domain-escrow-explained